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The Victorian Government (Australia) Department of Business and Consumer Affairs has a handy series of videos that identify and explain the most common types of scams that you’re likely to encounter. They apply to almost all countries, so they’re worth watching, wherever you live. Click the image below to view the video series.

This scam email message is particularly sneaky: it links to a hidden script page on a compromised school server in Italy, which redirects to a hidden script on a compromised host server at a Canadian university. It also segments its targeted victims according to countries, with mail scripts hidden on compromised servers in the countries being targeted.

By using school and university web servers to host their hidden scripts, scammers hope to avoid the increasingly aggressive security protection being implemented by larger hosting companies. They obviously regard educational IT departments as an easier target for inserting hidden scripts.

The ultimate destination of the malicious script is here:

https://fhseta.mcmaster.ca/administrator/help/paypal.co.info.com.nz.auu/webscr.php?cmd=_login-run&dispatch=5885d8*****4ecf4773c91 (shortened for security reasons).

Typical phishing scam email. All the usual tell-tale signs that rely on the recipient’s ignorance, inexperience, carelessness or gullibility.

This site is a public service from The Profit Clinic, created specifically for home-based business owners, but anyone is welcome to visit — and subscribe to our Email Alerts. (See form at right.)

I’m John Counsel, founder and CEO of The Profit Clinic. Welcome to our growing network of resource and support sites for small and home-based business owners and direct sellers. I hope you find it useful in protecting yourself from scams and flim-flam artists of all kinds.

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Lost YOUR domain name?

Back in July-September 2010 I was seriously ill and unable to renew the domain name for my hosting reseller account (profitclinichosting.com).

I’d made the mistake, in September 2007, of registering the domain name through the hosting company I was a reseller for at the time. BIG mistake (and I actually knew better, but I was too ill at the time to take care of it all properly, so the mistake was really just an easier option.)

After months of increasing frustration with that hosting company (more and more limitations on functionality and features for “security reasons”) I decided to transfer all my hosting to another provider in February 2010, but then had no end of trouble transferring the domain name. So I registered the domain name profitclinichosting.net instead and used that for my new reseller account.

The renewal notices from the registrar of profitclinichosting.com were sent to the original hosting company (a domain reseller). I didn’t receive any renewal notices and missed the renewal deadline. My late payment was accepted by the reseller — but the registrar refused to renew.

They had bigger things in mind.

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